Max Sheahan

AI consulting. Eugene, Oregon.

Max Sheahan

I build the one thing a person actually needs. Sometimes that is software. Sometimes it is the research behind a decision.

A teacher who built his own AI operating system and can teach you to run yours.

Private client

The Desk.

A private investor was paying for an expensive market terminal and fighting a handful of AI chatbots, and still could not get a clean answer about his own holdings. I built him one box. One sourced answer back.

He liked it. Then he asked for more.

Same client

The guitar room.

Chord shapes, picking patterns, a song player that transposes on the fly. Built for the way one player actually practices, not for an app store.

Same client

The opera library.

Composers, eras, voice types, libretti. A single-purpose research surface for someone who wanted to actually learn opera, not just listen to it.

Another client did not want a tool at all. He wanted to win an argument.

Private client

The briefing packet.

A different client was making the case for a major California infrastructure program, and the argument was not ready for a hostile committee. I turned a stack of white papers into a sourced, modeled, committee-ready packet. He read it, cancelled the meeting he had booked, and rebuilt his approach.

Two clients, two problems that look nothing alike. Here is what yours might look like.

What I build

What this looks like.

Whatever I build, I teach you to run it. You are not left with a system only I can operate.

A dark knowledge graph of linked notes feeding an AI retrieval panel.

Second brain

A structured knowledge system for you or your team. Context flows between people instead of evaporating when someone leaves.

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A dark terminal running AI agents and skills next to a configuration sidebar.

AI setup and optimization

Claude, Cowork, agents, skills. Configured for how you actually work, not how the tutorial says to use it.

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A writing voice profile beside an email drafted in the same voice.

Voice and writing profile

Your voice captured as a profile, then reused across every email, post, and document. Stops your AI from flattening you.

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A node graph connecting a form, a calendar, and an email step.

Workflow automation

Connect the tools you already use. Multi-step automations, scheduled flows, triggers that run without you touching them.

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An inbox sorted into priority lanes with replies drafted and ready.

Inbox triage

Drafts replies in your voice. Surfaces what actually needs you. The morning hour you would rather not spend on email, automated.

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A report builder pulling data sources into a finished status report.

Recurring reports

Status updates, board memos, weekly metrics. The inputs flow in on a schedule, the output writes itself.

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A morning dashboard showing calendar, tasks, and inbox on one page.

Personal dashboard

One page that pulls from your calendar, inbox, and project tools. Answers the question, what should I work on today.

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A one-page meeting brief with the last conversation and the key documents.

Meeting prep briefings

A one-page brief before every call: the last conversation, the relevant docs, what the person has said publicly recently.

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A form submission flowing into a confirmation message and an inbox alert.

Intake and onboarding flows

Form, auto-reply, calendar handoff, routing to the right inbox. Every new prospect or client runs the same path.

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A research dossier with fact-checked claims, a financial model, and an opposition map.

Research and case-building

You have a case to make and no time to build it. I fact-check the claims, model the numbers, map the opposition, and hand you an argument that survives a skeptic.

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About

Who you would be working with.

I booked live music at a speakeasy in Boulder, taught six subjects across K–12 in Kampala, led a district-wide ELA standards rewrite in Eugene, and now build custom AI tools for private clients, small businesses, and schools.

There is a throughline. The same instinct ran a 50-seat music venue, taught six subjects in a Kampala classroom, and now shapes the builds: pay attention to the one person in front of you, then make a hard thing clear to them. Teaching is where that became a profession, and it is why I can build you a system and actually get you running it.

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Have something you keep wishing existed?

Book a 30-minute call. The first conversation is free. You will leave knowing whether the thing you want is worth building and roughly what it would take.

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